Although the Middle English poem known as 'Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight' is assumed to be a kind of comic or satirical romance
deriving from the Christian courts of England in the fourteenth
century, several strange features suggest a different origin and
generic categorization. Renaming it Sir Gawain and the Knight of
the Green Chapel initiates the defamiliarization process. This book
argues that the poet and his or her milieu belong to the small and
confused converso community left behind after the Jewish expulsions
at the end of the thirteenth century and still wondering who they
were and what their place in society might be. Such a perspective
may help explain why the goal of the young Sir Gawain is not only
not green or even a chapel, but also why he arrives in the Castle
of Hautdesert and undergoes a totally unexpected series of ordeals
and tests.
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